Do you handle your females during breeding season?

[redshepherd]

Just a quick question in the title. If the female is more on the skittish side, do you handle her? Would stress make a female reabsorb follicles/stop ovulation?

Since "breeding season" could be up to 6 months or so...

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Only for maintenance purposes, which is a quick move to a holding tub while cleaning their tubs before being placed back.

It does not matter if a snake does not get handled for 6 months it's a BP, they don't need to be work with like other species.

[monty_python9]

Only for maintenance purposes, which is a quick move to a holding tub while cleaning their tubs before being placed back.

It does not matter if a snake does not get handled for 6 months it's a BP, they don't need to be work with like other species.

Really?

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[Stewart_Reptiles]

Really?

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Yeah really I personally don't really handle my animals aside from maintenance (which includes cleaning and checking the animal over) and they are just fine to the point that if a kid comes over and want to handle a snake even the largest female it's no issue.

Now if it was another species like a blood than it would be different you absolutely have to handle this type of species on a regular basis to keep them handleable at all time if you don't you are in for trouble.

[redshepherd]

I see, good to know! Ball pythons really are the mellowest guys...

Though I was asking less because of getting "not used to handling", but because I still hoped to take her out regularly for photos hahah- at least until ovulation.